Sure, if by miraculous chance you happen to have printf'd exactly the state you required to figure out the assert/crash, "you don't need gdb". You could also fi

Sure, if by miraculous chance you happen to have printf'd exactly the state you required to figure out the assert/crash, "you don't need gdb". You could also find -- by divine inspiration -- what went wrong just by looking at the line number where the assert failed. But it's still WTF-y to argue that therefore, an actual {,post-mortem} debugger is "a last resort tool".